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...more relevant to Indonesia's 235 million citizens is the country's halting economic progress. Megawati styles herself as a reformer and a champion of the wong cilik (little people), but Indonesia is only now climbing out of the crater caused by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Its annual GDP growth rate has averaged an anemic 3.4% since 1999, compared with 6.5% for all other developing East Asian countries, according to the World Bank. Indonesia's rate is expected to rise to 4.8% this year, but David Nellor, Jakarta-based senior resident representative for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), believes...
...even though our basketball team was 3-17 before tip-off; even though the Bulldogs had led eventual national champion (a healthy No. 1 Connecticut) at the half in its first game of the season...
...then there was the fact that this dual match would, for all practical purposes, crown the 2004 Ivy champion. The Crimson (15-6, 5-0 Ivy) and Brown (16-5, 4-1) sat tied atop the Ivy standings before the match, and though both still had to face Yale and Dartmouth before the season ended, neither competitor was expected to pose any threat...
Radcliffe—trailing from the start—maintained a challenge the entire race, but nevertheless lost by just under five seconds. The Bulldogs crossed the line at 6:05.8, while the defending national champion Black and White clocked...
...Crimson (20-13) turned in a 3-1 weekend, falling only to the eventual champion Hartwick en route to a fifth-place finish...